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First Six Weeks |
08-22 to 09-30 |
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Second Six Weeks |
10-01 to 11-11 |
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Third Six Weeks |
11-14 to 12-20 |
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Week 7 |
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10.03 Monday: |
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Edward Taylor, “Huswifery,” p. 82 |
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10.04 Tuesday: |
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Washington Irving, “The Devil and Ton Walker” pp. 229-239—part 1 |
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10.05 Wednesday: |
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Washington Irving, “The Devil and Ton Walker” pp. 229-239—part 2 |
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Assignment 2 due at beginning of class. |
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10.06 Thursday: |
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Review Test |
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Twilight Zone: “Escape Clause” |
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10.07 Friday: |
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Washington Irving, “The Devil and Ton Walker” pp. 229-239—part 3 |
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Assignment 1 due at beginning of class for re-submission / re-grade. |
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Week 8 |
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10.10 Monday: |
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Staff Development Day—No school |
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10.11 Tuesday: |
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Evan Hunter, “On the Sidewalk Bleeding”—supplemental |
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10.12 Wednesday: |
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Evan Hunter, “On the Sidewalk Bleeding”—supplemental |
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10.13 Thursday: |
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Evan Hunter, “On the Sidewalk Bleeding”—supplemental |
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10.14 Friday: |
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Evan Hunter, “On the Sidewalk Bleeding”—supplemental |
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Week 9 |
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10.17 Monday: |
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Evan Hunter, “On the Sidewalk Bleeding”—Review Test |
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10.18 Tuesday: |
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Writing Workshop1: formal completion of persuasion essay |
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10.19 Wednesday: |
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Writing Workshop 2: formal completion of persuasion essay |
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10.20 Thursday: |
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Discussion of Modern American Gothic: Joyce Carol Oates “Where is Here?” pp.325-332 |
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10.21 Friday: |
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Discussion of Modern American Gothic as social commentary. |
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Wrap up discussion of: Joyce Carol Oates “Where is Here?” pp.325-332 |
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Week 10 |
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10.24 Monday: |
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Discussion of plot development within Joyce Carol Oates “Where is Here?” pp.325-332 |
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Re-teach developing an academic SAR response utilizing RACE methods |
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• Repeat • Answer • Cite • Explain |
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10.25 Tuesday: |
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Review and reasses themes within Joyce Carol Oates “Where is Here?” pp.325-332 |
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10.26 Wednesday: |
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Joyce Carol Oates, “Where is Here?” pp.325-332—Review Test |
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10.27 Thursday: |
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In-class exercises: Proofing and Sentence Structure |
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Discussion of character and theme within Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” |
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10.28 Friday: |
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Review and Re-assess |
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Week 11 |
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10.31 Monday: |
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Staff Development Day—No school |
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11.01 Tuesday: |
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Denotation versus Connotation |
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Sylvia Plath, “Cut”—supplemental |
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11.02 Wednesday: |
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Construction of Anchor Charts |
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Using sentence stems of critical analysis, students will create posters. |
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11.03 Thursday: |
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Alexander Petrunkevitch, “The Spider and the Wasp”—supplemental |
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Amateur nature documentary: Tarantula Hawk Wasp versus Tarantula |
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11.04 Friday: |
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In-class exercise: Reviewing strateies within Alexander Petrunkevitch, “The Spider and the Wasp”—supplemental |
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Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDhGbFc1IaQ |
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Week 12 |
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11.07 Monday: |
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Library Day |
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11.08 Tuesday: |
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Expository Writing |
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Begin Reading Chosen Novel |
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11.09 Wednesday: |
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Expository Writing Foldable—part 1 |
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Scheduled Reading of Novel |
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11.10 Thursday: |
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Expository Writing Foldable—part 2 |
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• Full Expository Foldable |
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Schedules Reading of Novel |
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11.11 Friday: |
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Scheduled Reading of Novel |
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In-Class Writing Exercise: Partial Book Synopsis |
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• Examples of opening sentences |
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